odyssey的故事英文

Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus,Greek warrior,as the strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War.Odysseus's quick-witted heroism,his colourful adventures,his endurance,his live for his wife and son have the same power to move and inspire readers today as they did in Archaic Greece,2800years age. This poem has been translated many times over the years,but Chapman's sinewy,gorgeous rendering(1616)stands in a class of its own.Chapman believed himself inspired by the spirit of Homer himself,and matches the breadty and pwoer of the original with a complex and stunning idiom of his own.John Keats expressed his admiration for the resulting work in the famous sonne.‘On first looking into Chapman’s Homer':‘Much have I travelled in the realms of gold…’ This new Wordsworth edition of Chapaman's Homer contatins accessible annotation,and a detailed introduction that places his masterpiece in the context of his own day,and discusses its influences on later poets.

特洛伊战争结束后，奥德修斯率自己的船队到了游牧巨人的海岛，波塞东的儿子独眼巨人囚禁了他们。奥德修斯用一根削尖了的巨大木头刺瞎了巨人的独眼，逃了出来。从此海神便同他作对。 他们逃到了风神岛，得到风神帮助，但是由于他的同伴的大意，打开了风神送给他们的口袋，风又把他们吹到风神岛。风神拒绝再次帮助他们，他们任凭船漂流到巨人岛，巨人对船队展开攻击，奥德修斯所乘坐的船因为没有靠岸而幸免于难，他带领水手们来到了魔女喀耳克的海岛上，由于神的保佑奥德修斯战胜了魔女，并受到魔女的款待。并在魔女的帮助下从先知忒瑞西阿斯的预言中得知了自己的未来。 之后他们继续航行，顺利地通过了以歌声诱人的妖鸟岛。与海神怪斯库拉那里和大旋涡卡律布狄斯中险死还生。在日神岛上，由于同伴宰食了神牛，激怒了宙斯，宙斯用雷霆击沉了渡船。大多数人因此丧命，他只身被冲到卡吕普索的岛上，并且被软禁了七年。 与此同时，奥德修斯美丽的妻子珀涅罗珀始终忠于自己的丈夫，为拒绝求婚者她借口要为公爹准备殓衣，等她布织好后她才可以改嫁。于是她白天织，晚上拆，以此来拖延时间。奥德修斯的儿子忒勒马科斯受女神雅典娜的暗中指点，离家去寻找父亲，在墨涅拉俄斯那里才知道奥德修斯在女神卡吕普索的岛上。奥林匹斯山上的众神出于同情让卡吕普索送奥德修斯乘木筏离开了海岛。奥德修斯在海上航行了17天，快到家时却不幸被波塞东把他的木筏击碎。 奥德修斯漂到了斯克里亚岛。国王的女儿瑙西卡遵照雅典娜的授意发现了奥德修斯，把他带回王宫，国王设宴招待他，席间奥德修斯讲述了自己十年来的遭遇。大受感动的国王派了一只船和许多水手送奥德修斯回国。雅典娜又让奥德修斯与儿子忒勒马科斯见面。忒勒马科斯向父亲讲述了家中的事情，父子俩共同商议了回家复仇的计划。第二天，父子相继回宫，当晚，珀涅罗珀被告知奥德修斯还活着，次日，奥德修斯在大厅中利用比武的机会杀死了所有的求婚者，一家人终于团聚。这估计是最简单的了~